![]() ![]() ![]() “Despite initial rejoicing by the Northern populace and Congress, this unauthorized seizure aroused a storm of indignant protest and demands for war throughout Britain,” writes Encyclopedia Britannica. That meant that when United States officers boarded the ship, it counted as an act of aggression towards a neutral party. ![]() The problem was that Britain was a neutral party in the war. Mason and John Slidell,” writes the Library of Congress. They were “brought ashore and imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor,” the library writes. Navy, Charles Wilkes, “commanded the crew of the U.S.S. Mason and John Slidell, were headed to Europe on the British mail steamer Trent to drum up foreign support for the war. It started with a Navy captain going rogue. On this day in 1861, the United States found itself in a contretemps with Britain that almost ended in a war the country could ill afford, given that it was at war with its own Southern states at the time. ![]()
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